Fourth Amendment
U.S. v. Simons - Introduction
US v Simons
In general, government employees who are notified that their employer has retained rights to access or inspect information stored on the employer\'s computers can have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the information stored there. For example, in United States v. Simons, 206 F.3d 392 \(4th Cir. 2000\), computer specialists at a division of the Central Intelligence Agency learned that an employee named Mark Simons had been using his desktop computer at work to obtain pornography available on the Internet, in violation of CIA policy. The computer specialists accessed Simons\' computer remotely without a warrant, and obtained copies of over a thousand picture files that Simons had stored on his hard drive. Many of these picture files contained child pornography, which were turned over to law enforcement.
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